Glimpses of Kathmandu Valley from not so long ago

Glimpses of Kathmandu Valley from not so long ago.
Photographs from the 1960s and 70s in this week’s issue of @nepalitimes by Daniel W Edwards

There are many photographs from the early 1900s that give us an idea of what Kathmandu Valley looked like a century ago. Most of those pictures were commissioned by the Ranas, who brought in photographers from Calcutta to take snapshots of their opulent palaces. They are a valuable visual documentation of a Nepal before the country opened up to the outside world…MORE